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Course A860, Post Graduate Foundation Module in Classical Studies
ISBN: 0415233550
Author: Dr Kevin Greene, Kevin Greene
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2002-06-27
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This fourth edition of a highly popular title for beginners covers all the major topics in archaeology, and has a new regularly updated companion website with information and links.This fourth edition constitutes the most extensive reshaping of the text to date. In a lucid and accessible style Kevin Greene explains the discovery and excavation of sites, outlines major dating methods, gives clear explanations of scientific techniques and examines current theories and controversies. New features include: a completely new user-friendly text design with initial chapter overviews and final conclusions, key references for each chapter section, an annotated guide to further reading, a glossary, refreshed illustrations, case studies and examples, bibliography and full index; a resources section offering web links to related websites, illustrations, museums, archaeological sites in the UK, USA, Europe and rest of world, TV programmes, videos, CD-ROMs; a companion website built for this edition providing hyperlinks from the contents list to individual chapter summaries which in turn link to key websites and other material; and an important new chapter on current theory emphasizing the richness of sources of analogy or interpretation available today.This book also has its own website...
The book is aimed at people without much prior knowledge of archaeology who might find the size and detail of some other textbooks rather overwhelming. If you are a hard-up student, take a careful look at this book and its alternatives, and decide which one is written at the right level for you. I'm always pleased to hear from readers and website users who have suggestions for additions and/or improvements for future versions.Archaeology: An Introduction has proved a popular and comprehensive book for beginners in the subject since its first publication in 1983. In this substantially enlarged and updated fourth edition Kevin Greene takes the reader through the history of archaeology, its working methods and the latest ways of interpreting the past. In a lucid and accessible style he explains the discovery and excavation of sites, outlines major dating methods and scientific techniques, examines current theories and looks at the way the past is presented to the public.
Features include:
( an introductory overview for each chapter, key references for each section and an annotated guide to further reading
a glossary, 133 illustrations (of which 66 are new), a comprehensive bibliography and detailed index
a redesigned upgrade of the books electronic companion at www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/kevin.greene/wintro/
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ISBN: 0226307867
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 1969-05-01
Synopsis
Includes "Ajax", "The Women of Trachis", "Electra" and "Philocetes".
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ISBN: 0140440399
Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.
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ISBN: 0140444203
Author: Flavius Josephus
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: 1981-09-17
Synopsis
Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and mass suicides at Masada. His account provides much of what we know about the history of the Jews under Roman rule, with vivid portraits of such key figures as the Emperor Vespasian and Herod the Great. Often self-justifying and divided in its loyalties, "The Jewish War" nevertheless remains one of the most immediate accounts of war, its heroism and its horrors, ever written.
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ISBN: 0140449213
Author: Suetonius
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: 2003-05-06
Product Description
Translated by Robert Graves and Revised with an Introduction by Michael Grant.
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